Where Grass Is Greener, a Push to Share Drought’s Burden
By IAN LOVETT
The lush residential horse pastures in Rancho Santa Fe are a reminder that life has continued almost as before in much of the state, even as some elsewhere cope with dry taps.
A child walking near her home with a coal-fired power plant in the background in Beijing, China.
Even as United Nations negotiators gathering in South America this week expressed a new optimism that they may finally achieve an elusive deal, experts caution that it probably will not be enough to stave off the near-term impact of global warming.
The lush residential horse pastures in Rancho Santa Fe are a reminder that life has continued almost as before in much of the state, even as some elsewhere cope with dry taps.
Swedish Match, a tobacco company, wants the F.D.A. to change course, by declaring its smokeless product as having “substantially lower risks to health than cigarettes.”
Mexico has passed laws to regulate emissions and promote renewable energy, but some analysts doubt it will commit the resources to meet its much-lauded goals.
After calling for an ambulance more than 35 times, a family in Sierra Leone, where Ebola has hit harder than in neighboring countries, waited for three days for help to arrive.
The broader significance of the report is that societies collectively forget according to the same formula as, say, a student who has studied a list of words.
The influx concerns parks department officials because the animals can destroy a forest understory and chip away at the bark of developing trees.
Leaning on the Clean Air Act, President Obama has reshaped environmental policy more than any previous occupant of the White House.
The regulation would be the latest in a series of E.P.A. controls on air pollution that wafts from smokestacks and tailpipes, and would probably set off a battle among all sides of the issue.
After an unusual land deal, a giant spill and a tanker-train explosion, anxiety began to ripple across the North Dakota prairie.
Alexander Grothendieck at the blackboard during a lesson at IHES, the mathematics institute near Paris, in the 1960s, above, and in 1988, right.
To say Alexander Grothendieck was the No. 1 mathematician of the second half of the 20th century cannot begin to do justice to him or his body of work.
The lizard and, well, Spider-Man, have ideal tools for scaling slippery surfaces. Engineers have copied the gecko’s clingy foot pads.
A quick-grow laboratory technique, called microfragmenting, may make it possible to mass-produce reef-building corals for transplanting onto dead or dying reefs that took centuries to develop.
After having a Scotch years ago, a photographer saw beauty at the bottom. Then he got interested in the science behind the patterns.
More than 100 years after it was found, and more than 2,000 years after it was believed to have been built, the Antikythera Mechanism continues to raise questions and provide answers.
Does a girl who enters adolescence with a big woman’s body have a harder time socially than most teenagers? How about a boy whose fat conjures up female stereotypes?
Bankers have gotten a bit of a bad rep over the last decade, owing to a variety of scandals. A new study may not help.
Radiologists are becoming more accessible to patients, but there are questions over whether the two parties will be able to handle dealing with each other when the results of scans are unwelcome.
Tiny, jelly-clad crustaceans known as Holopedium are thriving in some Canadian lakes after years of acid rain, threatening the food chain and “jellifying” the waters, biologists say.
A new movement may help patients receive test results directly from their radiologists, speeding up the process.
Quicker Scan Results
New research showing brain inflammation in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome may help scientists better understand how to treat the condition.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Brain
Scientists in the Florida Keys are using corals’ innate healing abilities to try to repopulate lost areas.
Regrowing Coral 
Fish that have white flesh are generally those that are resting or mostly inactive throughout their lives, while red-fleshed fish are usually long-distance swimmers.
With its mix of tobacco and other flavorings through a water pipe, it may smell and taste better, but a study finds it far from harmless.
An auditory scientist plans to help a New York audience make the most of some very minimal music and human sexual behavior is the focus of a yearlong show at London’s museum of medicine and art.
This psychoactive chemical isn’t just for hippies.
A mine fire in May killed 301 men, making it the worst industrial disaster in Turkish history. This is the story of two men who lived through it.
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